| No. in Admissions Register: | 686 |
| Age: | 9 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Pale |
| Hair colour: | Light |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Mole on right wrist; 2 moles left side of face |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 13 January 1882 |
| Late residence: | Newcastle under Lyme |
| Parish he belongs to: | Newcastle under Lyme |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Has been in Stoke on Trent Union Workhouse for about 3 months. Since then has been loitering about the streets selling matches |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing a razor |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 12 December 1881; J Griffiths and JG Williams; Newcastle under Lyme Court of Summary Jurisdiction |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month hard labour in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | 24 hours in the Borough cells and 6 strokes with birch |
| For what: | Stealing a quantuty of Christmas cards and a dozen looking glasses |
| Father's name: | John Oliver (step-father) |
| Occupation: | Potter |
| Mother's name: | Hannah Oliver |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | Yes |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest and sober, health good |
| Parents' wages: | 16s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Has offered to pay 1s 6d per week. Has a family of 5 children depending on them |
| Parents address: | Imperial Yard, Penkhull Street, Newcastle under Lyme |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | F Dutton, Head Constable, Newcastle under Lyme |
| Person making this return: | Frederick Dutton, Head Constable, Newcastle under Lyme |
10 December 1881 There was a report of the previous offence in the Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial and General Advertiser Saturday 10 December 1881 p.5 col.4: MAGISTERIAL. - At the Borough Police Court, yesterday (Friday), before Messrs. J. Griffith (Mayor) and C. Massey, John Hammond and George Henry Cadman, aged ten and nine respectively, living in Stubbs-street, were charged with stealing a number of fancy cards, value about 1s. 6d., the property of Mr. C. Hughes, stationer, Hassall-street; and also with stealing a dozen small looking-glasses from a shop in Church-street. The lads, it appears, have been connected with a number of others who have been in the habit of committing depredations of a petty character at shops in the borough. On Thursday they wee seen loitering about the two shops referred to, and the articles being missed, information was given to the police, who found them offering them for sale. When arrested, some of the stolen goods were found in their possession. The Bench ordered each of the lads to be kept in the borough lock-up for twenty-four hours, and afterwards to receive six stroke! each with a birch rod.
12 December 1881 The crime that sent him to Saltley was reported in the Staffordshire Sentinel Monday 12 December 1881 p.3 col.4: JUVENILE DEPRAVITY - John Hammond, a small boy, was in custody on a charge cf stealing a razor, value 2s., the property of William Evans, picture dealer, Liverpool-road, on Saturday. - As will be seen from our Saturday's issue, the lad was on Friday, at this Court, convicted of a petty theft, and sentenced to be imprisoned for twenty-four hours and receive six strokes with a birch rod. The latter having been administered to him on Saturday morning at the expiration of his term of incarceration in the borough lock-up, within three hours he stole the razor from Mr. Evans's shop, and was found P S Mandley offering it for sale to a woman named Harrison keeping a stall in Penkhull-street, to whom he made a statement that he had found it. - The lad pleaded guilty to the theft; and his stepfather, a hollowware-presser named Oliver, elected that he should be summarily dealt with. - The Bench said the lad had been so many times before the magistrates, that it appeared useless to either whip or imprison him They decided to commit him to gaol for a month, and to order him to be afterwards kept in a reformatory for five years.
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